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Foul Fiends and Mysterious Murders: Historical True Crime Tour
5.0
24 Ratings
York
Join Dorian Deathly’s daytime ghost tour in York. Hear chilling tales with crystal-clear audio. Explore freely while immersed in eerie stories.
Duration:
1 hour, 15 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Shambles - (The) Shambles is York’s famous cobbled, Medieval street with many dark and troubling tales to tell.
- York Minster - York Minster is arguably one of the World’s most beautiful cathedrals, it also has a lot of secrets to tell.
- Bootham Bar - A wonderfully preserved portion of the famous city walls
What's Included
- Tour Guide
- Headphones
Additional Information
Dorian Deathly has been leading ghost tours in York at night for 10 years and has a lot of interesting tales to share, but sometimes he likes to come out during the daylight hours and enjoy a tour with a difference!
York can be a noisy old place in the daytime, particularly at peak times so it can be difficult to be fully immersed in the terrible tales!
We use a tour guide system with high quality over the ear headphones and a professional microphone system to ensure incredible clarity. You will be absolutely captivated by the stories, yet free to move around and explore the spaces as you like.
The tour will cover a collection of some of the fouler fiends from York’s darker past, blood spilled on these old stones that we tread upon. The tale of Death By Pancake! Questionable Victorian medical practices… History has never been so disgraceful.
Location
The Last Drop Inn
Colliergate
We meet outside The Last Drop Inn at the junction of Colliergate and King's Court. The pub is opposite York's Chocolate Story, near the top of the Shambles.
The postcode for maps is YO1 8BW / What Three Words - tests.after.flash
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Laurensp8087ra
Sep 3, 2024
Brilliant daytime tour for locals and tourists alike - Dorian's tour is the perfect blend of horrifying history and hilarity. I booked the tour when searching for something touristy to do with friends from further afield. We all had such a brilliant time, and I learnt loads of grisly new stories about my home city. The tour is inclusive, with headphones allowing you to set your own pace and to hear and focus on what the guide is saying (even in the busiest parts of York on a Saturday afternoon). Would highly recommend!
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Xander89d
Aug 14, 2024
10/10, entertaining, inclusive - Incredibly interesting, was great to learn about the true grimy and grisly past of York and incredibly inclusive, with wireless headphones it allowed my hard of hearing partner be able to listen in the hustle and bustle of york. The music between locations made it feel like we were on and adventure.
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Nigelw24
Aug 13, 2024
Interesting and funny tour. - A great walking tour. I really enjoyed this walking tour with Dorian.
He's very knowledgeable about York and he told us many stories both funny and grotesque that I guarantee you will not hear on a standard walking tour.
Definitely worth doing if you want an entertaining alternative tour of York.
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Garynz2981it
Aug 11, 2024
Great tour experience - Great tour with Dorian. Professional as always with great sense of humour. Highly recommended. A history lesson on the dark side. Just as good as the ghostly tours which I would also highly recommend
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Tour53978691125
Aug 11, 2024
Excellent experience - Amazing experience, well paced and always entertaining. Funny and informative and it was brilliant overall. Recommend for anyone in York, for a few days or residents. Takes you to places both in and out of the hustle and bustle, but the headphone experience is clear and keeps the entertainment going even in the busiest portions. All around excellent. A mother, teenage daughter and adult son had a blast and the hour or so flew by!
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Camper90677
Aug 11, 2024
Great tour! - What a great tour! The headset angle made it simultaneously more casual and more intimate, and it was much easier navigating the busy streets when you don’t have to worry about being able to hear the tour guide! The tour itself was fascinating, with the right balance of humour with the darker aspects. 10/10 would recommend!
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Ckemp19
Aug 11, 2024
Brilliant storytelling about York’s gruesome history - Great tour - learned a lot about the gruesome history of York with some comedy thrown in by our amazing guide! If you enjoy history told in an entertaining way I would 100% recommend.
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Traveler01042322967
Aug 8, 2024
Very awesome day out! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - I went on this tour with my friend (both 16) as we’d been on the other ghost tour that you run previously, we had a great time!!
The stories were so interesting and covered all sorts of topics like robberies, witchcraft, murders and fraud. The way you delivered the stories was so captivating and was so easy to enjoy. The tour itself was great, using headsets was very useful as usually in the summer holidays, a tour would be very hard to hear… The medieval rendition of pop music in between stories was an awesome addition to the tour.
If i could, I would go on this tour again and again and again.
Very highly recommend!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Laura
Aug 7, 2024
Obsessed! - Absolutely loved this tour, I've never done one with headphones before and I now think they should always be like that, it makes hearing the guide easy and I was less distracted by things around me. I am obsessed with true crime and this fed my obsession, I am now obsessed with historical Yorkshire True Crime and also medieval remixes of pop songs (IYKYK) Dorian is a legend, we saw him on a ghost tour before and definitely didn't stalk him online forever! Got a discount code so might go again with family.
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Q86wawendya
Aug 7, 2024
Time very well spent - We had a very enjoyable time the guide who took us around the city was very entertaining and extremely knowledgeable regarding past events on York. The headphones were an added bonus as you could hear everything that was being said and you didn’t miss anything.
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